As we are at the dregs is 2021 I thought it might be an idea to look back at BBC bias for 2021 and re recall the worst cases.
( I know Craig over at the excellent ‘is the BBC biased ‘ site is doing the same but whatever ….)
As a starter – I would suggest the free ride that the fraudulent US President is getting from the BBC – compared to its ‘ obsession with killing president trump – is number one – but your views might differ…
Though an excellent idea Fedup2, a review of the year, time seems to be doing very strange things to me and I am not blaming the vax. I didn’t have my first vaccination until May and that seems a lifetime ago, yet each day or week rushes by. So when were extinction rebellion gluing themselves to trains, or their mates at insulate Britain sticking to the road. I can remember the BBC and the police being sympathetic to both, but how? Oh dear I think my brain is atrophying.
There are myriad examples of extreme BBC bias throughout 2021 , as there have been every other year since the nineties. What links all of those examples is the narrative of support for the aims of the liberal globalist blob, which aims to run the Western world for its own benefit under the guise of a deeply caring, compassionate, democratic , tolerant, inclusive modern society , of which blobists are the high priests and multi billionaires.
Of course the high priests need a few million helpers which is where the BBC et al come in. These helpers will be well looked after by the priests , live comfortable lives well insulated from the harsh realities of the post democratic world they have helped to create. Meanwhile we ordinary folks can scratch around for a living whilst survey the wreckage of the society we grew up in wondering how the hell it happened.
Interesting choice of word(s) on the bbc this morning. I was looking at a small “filler” about uk towns applying for city status. Apparently Southend on Sea have applied, following the “death” of MP Sir David Amess.
Death?
May I suggest “Terrorist murder by a stone-age savage who should not have been in this country”? I don’t care if he’d lived here all his life. The statement still stands.
Certainly shouldn’t be allowed to take another breath, that much I know.
Angry as I am at this senseless crime, the bbc attitude of applying an “Immigrants are nice” gloss to everything makes me hurl. They probably feel that if they suck up to these people, they will be spared. Ain’t going to happen, mate.
I also noticed with a wry smile that 8 Scottish towns have applied to be UK cities. I thought they wanted out of the UK unless goblin lady is not quite telling the truth or is only speaking for Glasgow!
“Apparently Southend on Sea have applied, following the “death” of MP Sir David Amess.
Death?”
It’s quite simple. David Amess’ killer has yet to be convicted. Calling it “murder” at this stage would be contempt of court, as it could prejudice the trial… and you wouldn’t want that, would you?
Luckily, kids can still be freaked by a good ‘could’.
BBC Newsbeat
Early evidence suggests fewer people are needing hospital treatment than with other variants. But there are concerns, the sheer number of Omicron cases could overwhelm hospitals.
A quick mathematical preamble before we settle down for a Christmas tale of wonder from our BBC
Between 1977 and 1985 Johnny Ball presented BBC kid’s TV show Think of a Number – poor old Johnny Ball is of course now black balled, persona non grata, since: ‘Children’s TV legend Johnny Ball stuns maths audience with climate change denial. He’s also denied making an Islamophobic remark‘ (Bristol Live July 2019)
I digress… think of a number…
Many a journalist nowadays thinks a number is all that is sufficient when conjuring a headline – all be that number quoted, rounded, aggregated, surveyed, estimated, sampled, modelled… whatever: ‘Official: Omicron is 50% less severe‘ (Daily Mail); ‘Risk of hospital stay is 40% lower with Omicron varient, data shows‘ (Guardian); ‘Preliminary data show reduction of between 40% and 70% in hospital stays for serious cases‘ (‘i’)
The doom-mongering severely coronaphobic‘i’ newspaper acknowledges the apparently now reduced severity of so-called expert outlook (didn’t we already know this as soon as the term Omicron was coined?) for the lately much vaunted and much hyped feared tsunami of Omicron, chucks around a few figures (take your pick there, folks) and now, damage done, looks forward this feastive period to a gay old time: ‘Cheer up, it’s nearly 2022! Next year brings football, festivals and 50 years of Pride‘
Ah, just what just about every young person throughout the ages yearns for – a good helping of sport, entertainment and homosexuality.
And now – if you’re still sitting comfortably after all that homosexuality – it is time for another Christmas tradition – the fireside Christmas tale.
Sometimes these are Christmas ghost stories, weird winter’s night tales, such as those classics with which that scholarly master of the genre, Cambridge don MR James, would regale his undergraduates, over hot toddies under dimmed gas lights.
The BBC brings us a bit of a shocker from the frosty northern climbs of Norway, no less.
‘Gay Santa ad highlights big shift in Norwegian society‘
But hush! As anarchic comedian Kenny Everett would love to quip: “I’m giving away the plot! And it’s all done in the best possible taste!”
‘Christmas ads have become an annual tradition, often appearing as mini-films with their own festive story. But one Norwegian commercial, featuring Father Christmas kissing a man waiting for him at home on Christmas Eve, has become a surprise hit.‘
Well, fair enough, I’m certainly surprised this is considered a hit. One wonders for half a moment how it encouraged customers to use the Norwegian postal service – but I digress.
‘In When Harry meets Santa, the four-minute ad by Norway’s state-run Posten postal service, the man is seen writing Father Christmas a letter to the North Pole with the message: “All I want for Christmas is you.” And he gets his wish.‘
Ah, bless, what you might call a happy ending. Pop it in Pete – as Larry Grayson’s posty was known.
And well, I know Santa does like to stuff something down one’s chimney at this time of year.
‘“We wanted to celebrate the 50-year anniversary since the abolition of a law prohibiting same-sex relationships,” says Monica Solberg, Posten’s marketing director‘
Well, it is that time of year. Peace on earth and goodwill to all… men.
‘As well as praise there has been criticism, with claims that it sexualised Father Christmas or that it showed Santa cheating on Mrs Claus.‘
To be fair there have been reports since the 1960s from the Ronettes, for example, who sang: “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus… Underneath the mistletoe last night” – what’s good for the Christmas goose is good for the Christmas gander.
‘In many parts of the world, the idea of a gay Christmas romance would be controversial.‘ – surely not, BBC. Not in this day and age!
‘But in the Nordic region the ad was generally viewed as a heart-warming Christmas story, reflecting Norway’s progressive approach to LGBT rights.‘ – and with that sweeping generalisation… case closed.
With that thought in mind we snap the old story book shut as we fondly recall Mr Derek once-upon-a-time would do with Basil Brush.
Goodness only knows what Rudolph the Reindeer will get up to in some Scandinavian State corporation’s Christmas advert next year.
Think I’m joking?
I googled Rudolph the Reindeer and guess what… apropos of nothing I get…
“Is Rudolph a boy or a girl?
The first written account of Santa Claus having reindeer was in 1821, and since then most people have assumed the reindeer were male – but a scientist says those people would be wrong“
TOADY Watch #2 – at a cost to the taxpayer who is not mentioned merely ignored
A women’s health ambassador will be appointed to help reduce “gender health inequality” in England. The gender health inequality in England is that men do not go to the Doctor much, and when they do, it is often too late for a medical intervention. They tend to shrug off symptoms and warning signs. This is an established fact. To be fair, the News reader or presenter did mention the other gender health inequality which is that men, generally, have a shorter life expectancy than women, especially outside England.
Never mind the true gender inequalities in health. Let us have a bit of virtue signalling and job justification by Maria Caulfield and appoint a women’s health ambassador. The pay no doubt, will be a burden on the taxpayer, and will come from the NHS budget paid for by the taxpayer. Then there will be the pay for an office rented somewhere expensive in London, a deputy Ambassador, an administrator and a secretary.
Ho ho ho, another QUANGO. Oh, thank you. It’s just what I’ve always wanted.
I couldn’t quite follow that. The task of Women’s Health Ambassador will be to ensure that women do not take more than their fair share of resources from the NHA; is that right?
TOADY Watch #3 – in which Justin does not ask a crucial question
Chris Hopson of NHS Providers was the prime interviewee at 8.10 followed by a Nerve Tag committee member Professor (sorry, forgotten name) albeit speaking in a personal capacity, not for NerveTag. It is no wonder the NHS absorbs so much taxpayer cash and has to be constantly ‘saved’ by the taxpayer when HMG has so many Chiefs running the NHS for it and an advising committee on this and that medical and science aspect. One day, someone should compile a list of all these agencies and how many ‘chiefs’ work for them.
Chris Hopson mentioned bed occupancy is running at 94% at present in the NHS and I am sure that like many other listeners around the UK Snuffy was shouting at the radio “Ask about bed closures, Justin!”
IPA’s @evmulholland says it is “completely inappropriate” for the ABC to advertise itself by using taxpayer funds for advertising, promotions and research.https://t.co/H6jQFpM5RA
BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – it might not be such a good idea . . …
.. . . . to get Tony Blair (Labour supporting Daily Mirror – if you did not know already – front page) and Gordon Brown (BBC Home Page, top dead centre) https://www.bbc.co.uk/ to keep pushing vaccination. I cannot think of two less trusted individuals than Blair and Brown to push vaccination at home and abroad. And that is even among the young who we know are more likely to be unjabbed and more radically inclined toward the Left and Socialism.
BBC: Just a Minute returns with a virtual audience in January.
‘Radio 4’s longest running panel game returns for its 88th series. Sue Perkins is back at the helm and challenges our panel to speak for Just a Minute on the subject of their choosing without hesitation, repetition or deviation’ […. from Omicron-inspired semi-official scaremongering lockdowns. Considering the relaying of project fear “Repetition” is the BBC’s sole fault of those three potential transgressions]
‘In order for the BBC to be able to record your reactions throughout, you will also be given access to our Virtual Audience Recording system, which will need to be opened in an up-to-date version of Google Chrome on a PC or Mac (tablets and phones are not currently supported). You will be able to hear reaction from all other audience members live, so we hope that even though you are probably sitting at home, we can try and recreate the feeling that you’re part of a live audience!’
‘Audience members will be encouraged to react in the same way you would in a theatre – laugh, applaud and react whenever you want to, and when we mix everything together it will sound amazing!’
I just wish they would do this with all of their programs including the news and kill off all their live broadcasting! Maybe bung the whole lot on YouTube.
Wave after you wave of negativity on bbc one o clock news.
Omnicron now proved not as dangerous as other variants but according to bbc this requires a but and lists another load of negativity . Gas will go up to consumer n0 mention about the real reason this is happening.
Wife insists on watching this tabloid fake news why I ask her because it’s the bbc . You couldn’t make it up.
TWatO Watch #1 – oh dear, oh dear, that will not do at all
I heard a rather different TWatO to Johnda. The Montacutie went to a vox pop from a bar and club owner (two ventures) in Glasgow. She asked about the Scottish restrictions. Bar owner explained what it would mean for his businesses and praised Boris Johnson who, he thought, had done the right thing for England.
Next contributor was a South African sounding Doctor who again, in response to Sarah’s questions, reckoned that Bojo had done the right thing. Ooops. Definitely not what the BBC would have prefered.
The medical mafia must be over the moon with the bio experiment about to take place – keeping ‘clubs ‘ open in Engerland but shut in the rest of the UK .
Will that mean a big ‘wave ‘ of sniffling kidults in the 2nd and 3rd week of 2022 in Engerland but not the rest of the UK ?
The BBC must be worried that Project Fear is running out of steam and that jo public is being responsible for themselves rather than sitting waiting to be told what to do next …
For once im seriously angry. If somebody from a right wing program or publication had published or broadcast such a disgusting poem then it would be all over the BBC news and the left would be screaming blue murder..!!!
The BBC will get away with it because there is no one that has the balls to confront the lumps of Primordial Slime.
You may or may not be a fan of Thatcher but she dosnt deserve such foul comments or comparison.
They’ve been pushing the boundary for what they can get away with since Brexit. They upped it a gear for Trump and nobody pushed back. Then they went overboard for Floyd/BLM and got away with that because anyone who pointed it out was branded a racist. Then we saw it totally uncontrolled for Biden where they just report whatever they like and don’t report even more.
It’s all down to social media and twitter in particular IMHO. It is a cesspit of activists who provide an endless torrent of tweets the BBC can use to show support for what they do, and who also form a mob to destroy anyone who does not agree with them. It’s composed of people such as students and luvvies who would normally be totally disregarded in the real world as immature idiots – but they have discovered the power they can have when they join together. Similar to ants.
It’s the modern form of Fascism. No different in essence to all the other fascists in history. Totalitarian control of opinion. Anyone who dissents is destroyed. The ultimate group-think.
The appalling bias from the BBC went up many notches when the Momentum supporting, Corbyn supporting, Labour activist and good all round self confessed Marxist Jess Brammar joined the BBC as a news editor.
Drakeford was asked about that taffman. He tried to wriggle out of it when, I think, the Montacutie skewered him with that surprising apposite – very non-BBC – question. Drakeford explained
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Involuntary listener to Mr Fact Checker Chris Mason standing in for Jeremy Vine.
He had on Jaquie Weaver pushing her book and praising her for female assertiveness. (She is the Zoom meeting Parish councillor who was in the news).
Surely his ‘facts’ are back-to-front? Anyone who has set up a Zoom meeting can easily chuck people off, it doesn’t need any special skill. Mason was free with his slandering of the men at the meeting, particularly the two who said they were chairman and vice-chairman. If they really did have those roles then Weaver must have been in the wrong, being just the equivalent of a minute taker?
A proper Clerk is a highly specific role. They need to know and interpret the Law to advise the meeting to keep within it whilst taking the minutes. They should not be just a minute taker. A good Clerk should anticipate problems and take advice from higher authorities before the meeting.
As I understand it, Jackie Weaver was asked to Clerk because they knew there would be problems but I don’t think she understood the role.
I hope Fatso Ferrari apologises for his laziness in not checking this story. My goodness, this expert on health care and advocate of health rationing should address his obesity, or he will be occupying a couple of beds (fastened together) which could be used for covid patients.
digg, I love the bit where Ian Hunter comes on to do ‘All the Young Dudes’ with Bowie, Ronson and the rest of Queen with help from various others. Was Hunter drunk? His guitar was out of tune, I think. Bowie aces a green suit and tops things off with ‘Heroes’. Recommended viewing any time but worth a Christmas Special all of your own, available on Choobs’r’U here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ6T9uYImnQ
Vatican City to prevent unvaccinated employees from working
16:47 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59764750
“Any official who fails to present the pass will not be allowed to work and will forfeit wages for any time absent,…
Pope Francis has consistently been a strong advocate of vaccines.
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How wonderfully Christian of them!
Not much like Jesus are they 😕
– Lepers were considered unclean and were separated from others. The law required that a leper stay excluded from society. The leper described in Mark 1:40-45 breached this code by approaching Jesus, and Jesus violates it by touching the leper. –
There’s a deliberate campaign to push vaccine into the arms of everyone. However, the statistics and therefore the science just does not agree. The stats for ME19, Tonbridge and Malling – an affluent area of retired and working people of all ages – can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 by typing ME19 into the ‘look up’ box.
The area is highly vaccinated, 87% with first dose for age 12 and over, 81% with two doses (both above the 80% level that still lurks in the back of my mind as being important for viruses) and over half have had boosters. Look at the infections though. Fractionally over 400 above the national average today of 761. Interesting that they have so few deaths, just 301. That may be down to more accurate recording of deaths or it may be a tribute to the hospitals in the area. There are if I recall correctly two major NHS ones and the private facility just north of Maidstone on the KIMS campus.
It gets worse if you go to AL10 or EN5 for their stats on vaccines and infections. St Albans are highly vaccinated but they are running infections at over twice the average of 761.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59769969
BREAKING
“People catching Omicron are 50% to 70% less likely to need hospital care compared with previous variants, a major analysis says.”
Yes BBC it’s a mild variant…
the South African doctor who discovered it told us similar weeks ago..
“It also shows the vaccine’s ability to stop you catching Omicron starts to wane 10 weeks after a booster dose.”
haha what ability? , they seem to catch it at the same rate the unvaxed
A horrible thought came across me as I was having my tea. It’s a whatif, what if the Brazenly Biased Clowns did become a pay to view Channel. Just imagine all those adverts where a white face was never seen. Never mind the programmes.
On the BBC 1. 6 pm news there is a feature on people having to isolate for Christmas.
But there is good news. A couple are shown who have benefitted from the isolation period reduction from 10 days to 7. They are very pleased and are shown hand in hand walking down the street.
They are both female,
Yes, the BBC managed to find two lesbians to feature. What are the chances of that?
It’s the BBC so the answer is very high.
Agenda? Moi?
On the BBC weather, there is a forecast for ‘Saturday’.
Not you will notice ‘Christmas Day’.
I suppose they don’t want to offend their favoured groups.
“Not you will notice ‘Christmas Day’.
I suppose they don’t want to offend their favoured groups.”
BBC schedule today:
BBC 1
09:15 Animal Park. Christmas 2020, Episode 4
10:10 Animal Park. Christmas 2020, , Episode 5
10:45 A Countryside Christmas
12:15 Bargain Hunt, Christmas Special
18:30 The Weakest Link, Christmas Special
20:05 Eastenders, Christmas plans clash
21:00 Celebrity MasterChef, Christmas Cook-Off
23:20 Gavin & Stacey, Christmas Special
BBC 2
08:15 Heaven Made at Christmas
09:15 A Christmas to Saviour
11:15 Mary Berry’s Festive Feasts, fit for a Christmas reunion
12:15 The Hairy Bakers’ Christmas Special
12:30 Inside the Factory, Christmas Cards
18.05 Upstart Crow, A Christmas Crow
18:45 Blackadder’s Christmas Carol
20:00 Blackburn Sings Christmas
21:00 Last Christmas
23:35 Elton John Christmas Concert
01:40 The Kniks’ Christmas Concert
BBC 4
19:00 Top of the Pops, Christmas 1998
23:30 Lucy Worsley’s Christmas Carol Odyssey
00:30 Carols from King’s
I post on this site because I am of the opinion that the BBC is biased .
Apart from trolling why do you post here ?
Do you pay the Telly Tax? That’s the tax that robs from the poor to give to the rich.
Merry Christmas.
Come on, bbc, will you celebrate these days for Christianity, or just pander to the others who don’t celebrate?
I bet the contents of this single malt glass that you’ll mention some other bloody ‘religion’ all over the weekend, just to make yourselves feel good about your ridiculous ‘rules’ for ”diversideeee’.
What a crap bunch or overpaid idiots we normal citizens have to pay for from our pensions!
Has anyone in our BBC/Guardian pointed out that Christmas was originally a pagan festival so there… it’s not Christian. We usually get this exciting news every Christmas.
G.W.F., yes but, no but John Humphrys isn’t around any more on TOADY to complain about Christmas items, decorations, cards, food, being in the shops the day after the August Bank Holiday Monday.
We still had some Christmas cake in the pantry from last year, but when I looked at it the other day, a green sort of patch had appeared on the top, so I poured it away…
(The was about half a bottle of Courvoisier in it – sadly…)!
On the Wednesday afternoon R4 vicars’ show they discuss the British fake nativity tradition
which is of course at complete odds with what the bible actually says .
I fear for coordinated attacks on Ukraine and Taiwan
by Russia and China, whilst sleepy Joe is tucked up in bed.
I expect if it happens, I’m sure the BBC will give us a
balanced interpretation of the” events.”
Eddy-Tens of thousands more Russians have died of Covid than
the official Russian figures. When a totalitarian county such
as Russia have a very serious internal problem, The answer is
to make it into an external one.
I notice that DFS are now running adverts without people unlike a competitor running a current with ad with two blokes and their 2 children. Maybe the penny has dropped with DFS. The Ofcom commissars have nowhere to go with their new ad!
At least we now know where to go for our new sofa folks!
I have been trying to think of something ‘seasonal and funny’ about Biden but I gave up. There is nothing funny at all about Biden. I am convinced he is the ‘chosen one’ because he is totally expendable and ‘hot swoppable’ with ‘Kamala’ who (observable as incompetent), would be replaced by a US ‘emergency council’ or politburo. What you are about to read is almost unbelievable – and quietly ‘rolled-out’ to Western governments by Biden via the UN ‘as a new world policy’.<And to make it worse its been ‘approved’ without a vote for it!
At Christmas!
Read this and wonder, what powers the BBC obsession with sexual identity?
What do election integrity and sexuality have in common? The Biden Administration.
Last Thursday, a UN resolution on election integrity sponsored by the United States was adopted “by consensus” (meaning without a vote) by the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
It was not surprising that no country called for a vote on this U.S.-led resolution as no country wants to openly challenge the U.S. government.
However, what was unusual was that 22 countries spoke out and either disassociated or reserved on controversial LGBT language in this U.S. resolution. (See the list of countries and a link to their recorded statements below.)
Most U.S. citizens have no idea that the U.S. regularly bullies, bribes and blackmails developing countries into accepting anti-life and anti-family policies at the UN and elsewhere.
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So the US under Biden is determined to create a top down legal requirement for all countries signed up to the UN to create a new ‘class of peoples’ who ‘self identify’ as neither male or femail, man or woman or use mother and father. That is linked to huge US and UK funding Aid to ‘poor’ (third world) nations who are less than happy being told what is a ‘Man’ or a ‘Woman’ and make the two seem interchangeable, (diversity and equality agenda).
That fact that its unscientific falls on deaf ears.
Its hard for Biden ALONE to have ‘thought-up’ all this up himself. Its under the banner of UN idea of Family Human rights (Includes state Abortion and Euthanasia rights push). Designed by the same people who want to ban the word ‘Christmas’, the ‘nuclear family’, the term ‘parents’ and wish to ‘sexualise children’ and make all paedophilia legal (by renaming it another ‘human right’ in LGTTQZYZ identities that cannot be ‘contested’ in court). Money will go to fringe groups via the usual suspects which will include the BBC if they have not already.
Can you protest? No. There is no UN vote. Some countries will still object, but then they won’t get any US (or UK) funny ‘AID’ money, and they will still get BBC ‘World Service’ propaganda machine working on overload to make it so.
The left will immediately start to adopt with ‘preferred pronouns’ from now on (starting with BBC next year). They know the game…
Our own parliamentary committee is ahead of the curve and recommends our MP’s should, approve any ‘motion’ (next year) to make ‘self certification’ legal in the UK. Its as IF they knew what Biden intended all along. BBC head of the curve already.
Population control? Climate Change? Pandemic drugs?
Buy one get three.
So the majority of the African nations, of the Caribbean islands and of Muslim countries wanted to amend the resolution as did both Russia and China.
It’s pretty obvious where these poor, corrupt and mineral-rich countries will be getting their ‘aid’ from now on, as many already are, and it’s not from the US or the UK. How many others will fall under the influence of the Chinese as the West continues to push this agenda remains to be seen. Central and South America next?
I guess the next Ofcom move will be to make it an offence not to include an ethnic or gay or gender neutral in ANY advert whatever the product.
A bit like the approach of the big brother in 1984, “you will love diversity”.
The problem with this is they have no idea how much resentment and hate they are stoking up! You cannot keep insulting the overwhelming majority of the population and keep everyone on-side with stupid artificial rules made by utter twats to push distorted minority issues, it will eventually explode.
“Omicron: Half of colds will be Covid, warn UK researchers”
“If you have a sore throat, runny nose and a headache there is a good chance it will be Covid, warn UK researchers.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59768366
So why is our country and its economy being continually being trashed ?
Nibor
“Migrant crossings: More than 270 people cross the Channel on Sunday ” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-59725399
Unless the Tory Government acts we will all be put in extreme danger!
We will be overwhelmed.
There are a huge mass of statistics supporting the transition of covid symptoms towards those of a cold or mild flu over the last several months.
The real question is why, in the face of this, the government official line is still, even now, that covid means persistent cough and fever and loss of taste/smell.
Delta was not like that and omicron less so.
I can’t myself see why, if you think you have a cold, a quick LFT would be out of order to check. Especially if you are about to visit elderly relatives, for whom covid rates have stayed low in the last few weeks.
maxi
Do you look suspicious?
Are you worried? Do you have reason to look suspicious?
Why do you post (troll) here?
Do you have anything to post about Al Beeb’s bias?
Danish study on vax efficacy – and while people will quibble – the consistency of the cultivated MSM narratives about what’s going is stumbling – while the vehemence and impositions of many official impositions looks to be ratcheting upwards for other than medical reasons.
This study shows that after three months the vaccine effectiveness of Pfizer & Moderna against Omicron is actually negative. Pfizer customers are 76.5% more likely and Moderna customers are 39.3% more likely to be infected than unvaxxed people. https://t.co/wPgAwG8BW3pic.twitter.com/3Oh3IJSVIk
Happy Christmas Eve morning. Does the good news about the lower threat of serious illness posed by Omicron outwiegh the threat posed to society by the speed it is spreading so fast ? The Head of @UKHSA – the UK Health Security Agency joins us at 8.10 on @BBCr4today
"Growing up, most of the Black characters that I saw on television were painted in an unfavorable light … Having a Black Santa experience allows us to show how diverse America truly is." https://t.co/zTZDwkM2C2
I stopped listening or watching BBC News and Current Affairs programmes about five years ago and I honestly feel physically and mentally healthier for having done so.
On top of the news ( propaganda) it churns out depressing documentaries and drama which destroy the nation’s self confidence , belittle our ancestors achievements and claim that the UK is uniquely guilty of monstrous historical crimes and that we must now atone for these centuries old crimes.
I reckon that the BBC causes mental illness for a significant proportion of those who consume its offerings and should therefore come with a government health warning. That the government forces people against their will to pay for the monstrous corporation which is making them ill is disgusting.
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Happy Christmas . I find the BBC both horrifying and fascinating. For instance . For an outfit so anti Christian ( evil ) it makes such a big fuss over Christmas .
It spends its time undermining the social fabric of the country – and of course the – our country itself – but it has an image of people – families – at christmas which no longer exists in many cases .
Its ‘ favourite false religion – islam – doesnt have christmas on its’ calender and go to too many british towns and cities at christmas and you will find there isnt one .
Yet on the BBC goes – assuming that every one is gonna have a good time and celebrate when that is not always the case- unless you are part of their sick swamp of course .
Wishing everyone a Good ( perhaps BBC free ) Christmas
Coming off a decent dual tariff mid January, I’ve elected to stay, ‘Footloose and Fancy Free’ on regular Variable tariff until things seem clearer. It would be my luck to enter another year contract only to find the Government steps in just after…………..
I locked in to a 15-month deal with Scottish Power (1/10/2021 to 31/12/2022) when they offered it towards the end of September. Their previous deal was also 15 months (from 1/7/2020). This was because I suspected big rises were on the way, partly because of the environmentalist insanity promoted by the useless BBC.
Mustapha – I did similar – but the pain even the big ( French ) suppliers are experiencing now will have to be transferred to punters ( voters ) sooner or later .
Ironically the current self imposed lockdown will push down that upward inflation curve and limit the need for interest rate hikes for a few more months ( this is from the Fedup theory of `economics ) ….
But the cost of living will be – I think – the Big Issue – for the election in a couple of years time …
As an aside – unusually this morning the Today money slot gave a couple of uninterrupted minutes to a major investor type who spelled out the main ‘unknowns ‘ which will affect the economy ( UK / western world ) in the coming year – taking into account no war of more serious brand of virus …
Namely ( in no order )
Changes in labour patterns
Supply chain trouble
Continuing reliance on digital
He threw in ‘climate change ‘ because he thinks it’s a threat to number 2 above …
Credit Springster; her selfies tend not to make her look like a deranged bunny boiler.
Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia – Wikipedia has for so long been plagued by climate change denial. But a group of dedicated volunteers around the world is working tirelessly to keep the deniers at bay. @MarcoLSilva https://t.co/dCPtVFhxBR
The ‘i’ newspaper studiously avoids all mention of the royals on its frontpage – meanwhile for one reason or another they proliferate across other titles this morning – and instead, as would be expected of the nation’s most coronaphobic of titles, the ‘i’ prioritises their familiar daily several pandemic bullet points.
However, to borrow from football terminology – it is obviously getting rather difficult playing journalistic keepy uppy with the old Omicron.
‘Omincron transmission appears to be slowing as scientist calls it a “storm not a hurricane” – storm in a teacup more like. How’s her tsunami working out for Ms Sturgeon in Scotland we wonder – just a rather modest tidal wave?
The BBC summarises Scotland’s press headlines as: ‘Scotland’s papers: Kennel boss killed by dog and Omicron threat ‘eases’‘
Oh dear, Scots journalism seems to be in similiar deep doldrums as is their football – Dog bites man and Omicron disappoints, eh?
We further note whilst digesting the latest daily presentation from the ‘i’ that when infections were on the increase we had emphatic alarmist language but now infection simply… seems to be slowing.
Still, all that fuss sold a lot more jabs: ‘Covid: Booster rollout to continue on Christmas Day‘ (BBC)
Medical procedures at Yuletide… I’m reminded of that ancient novelty record “All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)” – the refrain of six-year-olds and sixty-six-year-olds down the years.
‘PM praises ‘invaluable’ gift of jab‘ (BBC)
Mind you, getting any form of medical attention out of our NHS these days is a bit of a treat.
Six-year-old schoolboy to his pal: “My big bruvver told me he found out the family doctor doesn’t exist – it’s just mummy and daddy and grown ups all pretending”
‘NHS 24 is urging people to treat common illness at home as it faces its busiest period over the festive season.‘ (BBC)
‘It expects 170,000 calls over Christmas and New year – including two four-day weekends with GP surgeries closed.‘ (BBC)
Eight days of surgery closures over the Christmas and New year period allowing NHS staff holidays – because obviously we are still in a pandemic national emergency requiring emergency legislation and regulations to stay in place so as to control the population.
Have you noticed how the NHS saw a big health problem looming and basically abdicated all responsibilty to government and – in effect – the police.
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Moderator note …
As we are at the dregs is 2021 I thought it might be an idea to look back at BBC bias for 2021 and re recall the worst cases.
( I know Craig over at the excellent ‘is the BBC biased ‘ site is doing the same but whatever ….)
As a starter – I would suggest the free ride that the fraudulent US President is getting from the BBC – compared to its ‘ obsession with killing president trump – is number one – but your views might differ…
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Though an excellent idea Fedup2, a review of the year, time seems to be doing very strange things to me and I am not blaming the vax. I didn’t have my first vaccination until May and that seems a lifetime ago, yet each day or week rushes by. So when were extinction rebellion gluing themselves to trains, or their mates at insulate Britain sticking to the road. I can remember the BBC and the police being sympathetic to both, but how? Oh dear I think my brain is atrophying.
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There are myriad examples of extreme BBC bias throughout 2021 , as there have been every other year since the nineties. What links all of those examples is the narrative of support for the aims of the liberal globalist blob, which aims to run the Western world for its own benefit under the guise of a deeply caring, compassionate, democratic , tolerant, inclusive modern society , of which blobists are the high priests and multi billionaires.
Of course the high priests need a few million helpers which is where the BBC et al come in. These helpers will be well looked after by the priests , live comfortable lives well insulated from the harsh realities of the post democratic world they have helped to create. Meanwhile we ordinary folks can scratch around for a living whilst survey the wreckage of the society we grew up in wondering how the hell it happened.
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Speaking of dregs, the bbc reviewing comedy will be… interesting, in that Chinese Square sense.
Maybe Nish and Jo can host a special?
I doubt this will make the cut.
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BBC outraged.
Worse than that Jim…
Comments split between over 18s outraged and those thinking back to the days of Uncle Stu, etc.
Can you see where this is headed yet?
Once Mike Wendling gets in the edit suite for BBC Trending the past will be erased, and Mr. Franco sacrificed…
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Interesting choice of word(s) on the bbc this morning. I was looking at a small “filler” about uk towns applying for city status. Apparently Southend on Sea have applied, following the “death” of MP Sir David Amess.
Death?
May I suggest “Terrorist murder by a stone-age savage who should not have been in this country”? I don’t care if he’d lived here all his life. The statement still stands.
Certainly shouldn’t be allowed to take another breath, that much I know.
Angry as I am at this senseless crime, the bbc attitude of applying an “Immigrants are nice” gloss to everything makes me hurl. They probably feel that if they suck up to these people, they will be spared. Ain’t going to happen, mate.
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I also noticed with a wry smile that 8 Scottish towns have applied to be UK cities. I thought they wanted out of the UK unless goblin lady is not quite telling the truth or is only speaking for Glasgow!
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I also noticed that Port Stanley, Falkland Islands has applied for city status.
This is one I could support wholeheartedly.
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micknotmike,
“Apparently Southend on Sea have applied, following the “death” of MP Sir David Amess.
Death?”
It’s quite simple. David Amess’ killer has yet to be convicted. Calling it “murder” at this stage would be contempt of court, as it could prejudice the trial… and you wouldn’t want that, would you?
“#ThankYourMP trends on Twitter after death of Jo Cox”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-36558135
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Mair was charged on June 18th
BBC used the line “murder” in a few tweets after June 20th and before the trial in November 2016
eg1 MPs are paying tribute to “extraordinary” Jo Cox, who was murdered last week
.. https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/744896278337884160
eg2
“Killed MP”
.. https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/792713946558062592
“killed”
… https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/800021009239785472
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ITV used the line
19 Oct “Southend to become a city after the death of Sir David Amess, Prime Minister confirms”
https://www.itv.com/news/london/2021-10-18/southend-to-become-a-city-after-the-death-of-sir-david-ames-pm-confirms
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Meanwhile on Facebook…
BBC News
Mandatory vaccinations have been with us for centuries, quietly saving lives.
****
Subtle.
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Not. Or not very.
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Very Goebbels, It’s on Twitter too
CCBGB
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Luckily, kids can still be freaked by a good ‘could’.
BBC Newsbeat
Early evidence suggests fewer people are needing hospital treatment than with other variants. But there are concerns, the sheer number of Omicron cases could overwhelm hospitals.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59758784
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A quick mathematical preamble before we settle down for a Christmas tale of wonder from our BBC
Between 1977 and 1985 Johnny Ball presented BBC kid’s TV show Think of a Number – poor old Johnny Ball is of course now black balled, persona non grata, since: ‘Children’s TV legend Johnny Ball stuns maths audience with climate change denial. He’s also denied making an Islamophobic remark‘ (Bristol Live July 2019)
I digress… think of a number…
Many a journalist nowadays thinks a number is all that is sufficient when conjuring a headline – all be that number quoted, rounded, aggregated, surveyed, estimated, sampled, modelled… whatever: ‘Official: Omicron is 50% less severe‘ (Daily Mail); ‘Risk of hospital stay is 40% lower with Omicron varient, data shows‘ (Guardian); ‘Preliminary data show reduction of between 40% and 70% in hospital stays for serious cases‘ (‘i’)
The doom-mongering severely coronaphobic ‘i’ newspaper acknowledges the apparently now reduced severity of so-called expert outlook (didn’t we already know this as soon as the term Omicron was coined?) for the lately much vaunted and much hyped feared tsunami of Omicron, chucks around a few figures (take your pick there, folks) and now, damage done, looks forward this feastive period to a gay old time: ‘Cheer up, it’s nearly 2022! Next year brings football, festivals and 50 years of Pride‘
Ah, just what just about every young person throughout the ages yearns for – a good helping of sport, entertainment and homosexuality.
And now – if you’re still sitting comfortably after all that homosexuality – it is time for another Christmas tradition – the fireside Christmas tale.
Sometimes these are Christmas ghost stories, weird winter’s night tales, such as those classics with which that scholarly master of the genre, Cambridge don MR James, would regale his undergraduates, over hot toddies under dimmed gas lights.
The BBC brings us a bit of a shocker from the frosty northern climbs of Norway, no less.
‘Gay Santa ad highlights big shift in Norwegian society‘
But hush! As anarchic comedian Kenny Everett would love to quip: “I’m giving away the plot! And it’s all done in the best possible taste!”
‘Christmas ads have become an annual tradition, often appearing as mini-films with their own festive story. But one Norwegian commercial, featuring Father Christmas kissing a man waiting for him at home on Christmas Eve, has become a surprise hit.‘
Well, fair enough, I’m certainly surprised this is considered a hit. One wonders for half a moment how it encouraged customers to use the Norwegian postal service – but I digress.
‘In When Harry meets Santa, the four-minute ad by Norway’s state-run Posten postal service, the man is seen writing Father Christmas a letter to the North Pole with the message: “All I want for Christmas is you.” And he gets his wish.‘
Ah, bless, what you might call a happy ending. Pop it in Pete – as Larry Grayson’s posty was known.
And well, I know Santa does like to stuff something down one’s chimney at this time of year.
‘“We wanted to celebrate the 50-year anniversary since the abolition of a law prohibiting same-sex relationships,” says Monica Solberg, Posten’s marketing director‘
Well, it is that time of year. Peace on earth and goodwill to all… men.
‘As well as praise there has been criticism, with claims that it sexualised Father Christmas or that it showed Santa cheating on Mrs Claus.‘
To be fair there have been reports since the 1960s from the Ronettes, for example, who sang: “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus… Underneath the mistletoe last night” – what’s good for the Christmas goose is good for the Christmas gander.
‘In many parts of the world, the idea of a gay Christmas romance would be controversial.‘ – surely not, BBC. Not in this day and age!
‘But in the Nordic region the ad was generally viewed as a heart-warming Christmas story, reflecting Norway’s progressive approach to LGBT rights.‘ – and with that sweeping generalisation… case closed.
With that thought in mind we snap the old story book shut as we fondly recall Mr Derek once-upon-a-time would do with Basil Brush.
Goodness only knows what Rudolph the Reindeer will get up to in some Scandinavian State corporation’s Christmas advert next year.
Think I’m joking?
I googled Rudolph the Reindeer and guess what… apropos of nothing I get…
“Is Rudolph a boy or a girl?
The first written account of Santa Claus having reindeer was in 1821, and since then most people have assumed the reindeer were male – but a scientist says those people would be wrong“
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TOADY Watch #2 – at a cost to the taxpayer who is not mentioned merely ignored
A women’s health ambassador will be appointed to help reduce “gender health inequality” in England. The gender health inequality in England is that men do not go to the Doctor much, and when they do, it is often too late for a medical intervention. They tend to shrug off symptoms and warning signs. This is an established fact. To be fair, the News reader or presenter did mention the other gender health inequality which is that men, generally, have a shorter life expectancy than women, especially outside England.
Never mind the true gender inequalities in health. Let us have a bit of virtue signalling and job justification by Maria Caulfield and appoint a women’s health ambassador. The pay no doubt, will be a burden on the taxpayer, and will come from the NHS budget paid for by the taxpayer. Then there will be the pay for an office rented somewhere expensive in London, a deputy Ambassador, an administrator and a secretary.
Ho ho ho, another QUANGO. Oh, thank you. It’s just what I’ve always wanted.
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On the service side of the NHS there are still a few male portering and cleaning jobs ripe for elimination.
Only then will ‘equality’ be achieved!
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I couldn’t quite follow that. The task of Women’s Health Ambassador will be to ensure that women do not take more than their fair share of resources from the NHA; is that right?
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TOADY Watch #3 – in which Justin does not ask a crucial question
Chris Hopson of NHS Providers was the prime interviewee at 8.10 followed by a Nerve Tag committee member Professor (sorry, forgotten name) albeit speaking in a personal capacity, not for NerveTag. It is no wonder the NHS absorbs so much taxpayer cash and has to be constantly ‘saved’ by the taxpayer when HMG has so many Chiefs running the NHS for it and an advising committee on this and that medical and science aspect. One day, someone should compile a list of all these agencies and how many ‘chiefs’ work for them.
Chris Hopson mentioned bed occupancy is running at 94% at present in the NHS and I am sure that like many other listeners around the UK Snuffy was shouting at the radio “Ask about bed closures, Justin!”
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Envy of the world.
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Too much to hope a tvl funded off peak single?
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Bugger… ‘to’?
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Not remotely BBC based, but Andrew Lawrence (not quite cancelled)
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Perhaps he should seek a new career as a BBC announcer – innit ?
Cheers Harry – feel bad for our favourite comic – yeah ..
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BBC WEB-SITE Watch #2 – it might not be such a good idea . . …
.. . . . to get Tony Blair (Labour supporting Daily Mirror – if you did not know already – front page) and Gordon Brown (BBC Home Page, top dead centre) https://www.bbc.co.uk/ to keep pushing vaccination. I cannot think of two less trusted individuals than Blair and Brown to push vaccination at home and abroad. And that is even among the young who we know are more likely to be unjabbed and more radically inclined toward the Left and Socialism.
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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…
BBC: Just a Minute returns with a virtual audience in January.
‘Radio 4’s longest running panel game returns for its 88th series. Sue Perkins is back at the helm and challenges our panel to speak for Just a Minute on the subject of their choosing without hesitation, repetition or deviation’ […. from Omicron-inspired semi-official scaremongering lockdowns. Considering the relaying of project fear “Repetition” is the BBC’s sole fault of those three potential transgressions]
‘In order for the BBC to be able to record your reactions throughout, you will also be given access to our Virtual Audience Recording system, which will need to be opened in an up-to-date version of Google Chrome on a PC or Mac (tablets and phones are not currently supported). You will be able to hear reaction from all other audience members live, so we hope that even though you are probably sitting at home, we can try and recreate the feeling that you’re part of a live audience!’
‘Audience members will be encouraged to react in the same way you would in a theatre – laugh, applaud and react whenever you want to, and when we mix everything together it will sound amazing!’
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I just wish they would do this with all of their programs including the news and kill off all their live broadcasting! Maybe bung the whole lot on YouTube.
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Wave after you wave of negativity on bbc one o clock news.
Omnicron now proved not as dangerous as other variants but according to bbc this requires a but and lists another load of negativity . Gas will go up to consumer n0 mention about the real reason this is happening.
Wife insists on watching this tabloid fake news why I ask her because it’s the bbc . You couldn’t make it up.
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TWatO Watch #1 – oh dear, oh dear, that will not do at all
I heard a rather different TWatO to Johnda. The Montacutie went to a vox pop from a bar and club owner (two ventures) in Glasgow. She asked about the Scottish restrictions. Bar owner explained what it would mean for his businesses and praised Boris Johnson who, he thought, had done the right thing for England.
Next contributor was a South African sounding Doctor who again, in response to Sarah’s questions, reckoned that Bojo had done the right thing. Ooops. Definitely not what the BBC would have prefered.
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The medical mafia must be over the moon with the bio experiment about to take place – keeping ‘clubs ‘ open in Engerland but shut in the rest of the UK .
Will that mean a big ‘wave ‘ of sniffling kidults in the 2nd and 3rd week of 2022 in Engerland but not the rest of the UK ?
The BBC must be worried that Project Fear is running out of steam and that jo public is being responsible for themselves rather than sitting waiting to be told what to do next …
Must be due for a new brand of Chinese virus ….
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This is how appalling the BBC has become….Im f–king seething..!!!
https://order-order.com/2021/12/23/radio-4-read-out-poem-equating-thatcherism-to-the-holocaust-and-cancer/
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dafydd Where is Nadine Dorries ?
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..taffman..
For once im seriously angry. If somebody from a right wing program or publication had published or broadcast such a disgusting poem then it would be all over the BBC news and the left would be screaming blue murder..!!!
The BBC will get away with it because there is no one that has the balls to confront the lumps of Primordial Slime.
You may or may not be a fan of Thatcher but she dosnt deserve such foul comments or comparison.
Jaw dropping and appalling.
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They’ve been pushing the boundary for what they can get away with since Brexit. They upped it a gear for Trump and nobody pushed back. Then they went overboard for Floyd/BLM and got away with that because anyone who pointed it out was branded a racist. Then we saw it totally uncontrolled for Biden where they just report whatever they like and don’t report even more.
It’s all down to social media and twitter in particular IMHO. It is a cesspit of activists who provide an endless torrent of tweets the BBC can use to show support for what they do, and who also form a mob to destroy anyone who does not agree with them. It’s composed of people such as students and luvvies who would normally be totally disregarded in the real world as immature idiots – but they have discovered the power they can have when they join together. Similar to ants.
It’s the modern form of Fascism. No different in essence to all the other fascists in history. Totalitarian control of opinion. Anyone who dissents is destroyed. The ultimate group-think.
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..JohnC…
The appalling bias from the BBC went up many notches when the Momentum supporting, Corbyn supporting, Labour activist and good all round self confessed Marxist Jess Brammar joined the BBC as a news editor.
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I just wonder how far it will be allowed to go until something breaks and the BBC are stopped.
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..JohnC…
This Government doesn’t seem to have the spine to confront the BBC…for what ever reason.
Until the Government takes the gloves off and gets serious about bringing down the appalling bias, then i cant see it ending.
The appointment of Jess Brammar was remarkable, it was brought up in Parliament by Rees – Mogg but as usual no support from the PM..
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taffman,
Our Nadine is doing OK. Just a week or more to qualify for her first year towards a ministerial pension.
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Digg,
You mention that the Goblin lady aka Gnasher or Krankie only speaks for Glasgow.
More accurately she only speaks for Glasgow Celtic.
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“Covid: Fines for Wales employees not working from home”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-59741680
In case you missed it, ‘The, Great Dictator’ at work!
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Drakeford was asked about that taffman. He tried to wriggle out of it when, I think, the Montacutie skewered him with that surprising apposite – very non-BBC – question. Drakeford explained
that
workers
will
not
get
fined.
Only
if
their
companies
insist
on calling
them in
to the office or
place
of work
and they go
would
a fine
be
imposed.
Apparently it is all a myth that people have been fined by the Government in Wales.
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Just a question about Drakeford’s son. Is he still in Lock up?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45600558
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Involuntary listener to Mr Fact Checker Chris Mason standing in for Jeremy Vine.
He had on Jaquie Weaver pushing her book and praising her for female assertiveness. (She is the Zoom meeting Parish councillor who was in the news).
Surely his ‘facts’ are back-to-front? Anyone who has set up a Zoom meeting can easily chuck people off, it doesn’t need any special skill. Mason was free with his slandering of the men at the meeting, particularly the two who said they were chairman and vice-chairman. If they really did have those roles then Weaver must have been in the wrong, being just the equivalent of a minute taker?
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A proper Clerk is a highly specific role. They need to know and interpret the Law to advise the meeting to keep within it whilst taking the minutes. They should not be just a minute taker. A good Clerk should anticipate problems and take advice from higher authorities before the meeting.
As I understand it, Jackie Weaver was asked to Clerk because they knew there would be problems but I don’t think she understood the role.
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BBC Website “Half of colds will be Covid warn researchers”
And maybe half of Covid cases will be colds?
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A completely made up statistic.
The BBC love to make assertive statements based on unproveable ‘facts’. Lets them push the agenda without fear of fact-checkers.
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92.73% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Who checks the facts about the fact-checker’s daughter
When the fact-checker’s busy checking facts?
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Or influenza?
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Looking like the BBC have failed in their mission to get Christmas cancelled, pagan non-inclusive festival as it is to them.
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BBC front page story about old Christmas toy favourites. A big photo of sooty and sweep.
Dicing with the racist police brigade there BBC are you not?
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I hope Fatso Ferrari apologises for his laziness in not checking this story. My goodness, this expert on health care and advocate of health rationing should address his obesity, or he will be occupying a couple of beds (fastened together) which could be used for covid patients.
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Just watched the end of the Queen, Freddy Mercury concert on Sky arts. They finished to the tune of the National Anthem.
The audience all joined in enthusiastically. We were a different and far nicer species then!
Sad!
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digg, I love the bit where Ian Hunter comes on to do ‘All the Young Dudes’ with Bowie, Ronson and the rest of Queen with help from various others. Was Hunter drunk? His guitar was out of tune, I think. Bowie aces a green suit and tops things off with ‘Heroes’. Recommended viewing any time but worth a Christmas Special all of your own, available on Choobs’r’U here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ6T9uYImnQ
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Vatican City to prevent unvaccinated employees from working
16:47
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-59764750
“Any official who fails to present the pass will not be allowed to work and will forfeit wages for any time absent,…
Pope Francis has consistently been a strong advocate of vaccines.
”
How wonderfully Christian of them!
Not much like Jesus are they 😕
– Lepers were considered unclean and were separated from others. The law required that a leper stay excluded from society. The leper described in Mark 1:40-45 breached this code by approaching Jesus, and Jesus violates it by touching the leper. –
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There’s a deliberate campaign to push vaccine into the arms of everyone. However, the statistics and therefore the science just does not agree. The stats for ME19, Tonbridge and Malling – an affluent area of retired and working people of all ages – can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274 by typing ME19 into the ‘look up’ box.
The area is highly vaccinated, 87% with first dose for age 12 and over, 81% with two doses (both above the 80% level that still lurks in the back of my mind as being important for viruses) and over half have had boosters. Look at the infections though. Fractionally over 400 above the national average today of 761. Interesting that they have so few deaths, just 301. That may be down to more accurate recording of deaths or it may be a tribute to the hospitals in the area. There are if I recall correctly two major NHS ones and the private facility just north of Maidstone on the KIMS campus.
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It gets worse if you go to AL10 or EN5 for their stats on vaccines and infections. St Albans are highly vaccinated but they are running infections at over twice the average of 761.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59769969
BREAKING
“People catching Omicron are 50% to 70% less likely to need hospital care compared with previous variants, a major analysis says.”
Yes BBC it’s a mild variant…
the South African doctor who discovered it told us similar weeks ago..
“It also shows the vaccine’s ability to stop you catching Omicron starts to wane 10 weeks after a booster dose.”
haha what ability? , they seem to catch it at the same rate the unvaxed
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Impartial, totally impartial …
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Odds of this one getting ‘analysed’ by Toenails, Laura, etc?
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A horrible thought came across me as I was having my tea. It’s a whatif, what if the Brazenly Biased Clowns did become a pay to view Channel. Just imagine all those adverts where a white face was never seen. Never mind the programmes.
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thats ok nobody would be watching , so no one would ever know
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Huuuuuuurl.
By ‘our’….?
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You know, looking at Jon Snow’s backroom entourage, there’s seems to be a heck of a lot of white people present.
Just saying…
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There going to have a party.
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In fact I’ve never sleep so many white folk in one studio…. What am I saying?
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Have you got your lottery tickets?
On the BBC 1. 6 pm news there is a feature on people having to isolate for Christmas.
But there is good news. A couple are shown who have benefitted from the isolation period reduction from 10 days to 7. They are very pleased and are shown hand in hand walking down the street.
They are both female,
Yes, the BBC managed to find two lesbians to feature. What are the chances of that?
It’s the BBC so the answer is very high.
Agenda? Moi?
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If the choices are 2 lesbians or BAME then chances are 100%.
Whitey man is only used for bad-news.
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On the BBC weather, there is a forecast for ‘Saturday’.
Not you will notice ‘Christmas Day’.
I suppose they don’t want to offend their favoured groups.
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I have to laugh when I see the headscarf in the Christmas advertisements.
They would probably lose their heads for doing that in Afghanistan.
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Sluff,
“Not you will notice ‘Christmas Day’.
I suppose they don’t want to offend their favoured groups.”
BBC schedule today:
BBC 1
09:15 Animal Park. Christmas 2020, Episode 4
10:10 Animal Park. Christmas 2020, , Episode 5
10:45 A Countryside Christmas
12:15 Bargain Hunt, Christmas Special
18:30 The Weakest Link, Christmas Special
20:05 Eastenders, Christmas plans clash
21:00 Celebrity MasterChef, Christmas Cook-Off
23:20 Gavin & Stacey, Christmas Special
BBC 2
08:15 Heaven Made at Christmas
09:15 A Christmas to Saviour
11:15 Mary Berry’s Festive Feasts, fit for a Christmas reunion
12:15 The Hairy Bakers’ Christmas Special
12:30 Inside the Factory, Christmas Cards
18.05 Upstart Crow, A Christmas Crow
18:45 Blackadder’s Christmas Carol
20:00 Blackburn Sings Christmas
21:00 Last Christmas
23:35 Elton John Christmas Concert
01:40 The Kniks’ Christmas Concert
BBC 4
19:00 Top of the Pops, Christmas 1998
23:30 Lucy Worsley’s Christmas Carol Odyssey
00:30 Carols from King’s
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maxincony , night shift ?
I post on this site because I am of the opinion that the BBC is biased .
Apart from trolling why do you post here ?
Do you pay the Telly Tax? That’s the tax that robs from the poor to give to the rich.
Merry Christmas.
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Omicron up to 70% less likely to need hospital care
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59769969
No HYS for this one either. They seem to be reserved for bad-news opportunities for students and the hard-lefties to whinge about Brexit.
The article comes complete with 10 ‘but’s and 3 ‘however’s.
How very BBC.
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Lancaster burglar sexually assaulted woman in her bed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-59772774
We are told precisely nothing about the man convicted – Mamun Ahmed.
I wonder why.
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Local paper line “Mamun Ahmed, 33, from Bangladesh was sentenced to four years and four months”
https://www.lep.co.uk/news/crime/dangerous-lancaster-man-who-climbed-through-a-window-at-3am-and-sexually-assaulted-a-sleeping-woman-is-jailed-3505819
There is a similarity in another BBC story today
“Blackburn man who beat and bit his pregnant partner jailed” (2 years)
The perp is the main picture
And in the Muslim rapist story, the perp is the main picture
so that is a kind of balance
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Christmas Eve is tomorrow!
The next day is our actual Christmas Day!
Come on, bbc, will you celebrate these days for Christianity, or just pander to the others who don’t celebrate?
I bet the contents of this single malt glass that you’ll mention some other bloody ‘religion’ all over the weekend, just to make yourselves feel good about your ridiculous ‘rules’ for ”diversideeee’.
What a crap bunch or overpaid idiots we normal citizens have to pay for from our pensions!
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Has anyone in our BBC/Guardian pointed out that Christmas was originally a pagan festival so there… it’s not Christian. We usually get this exciting news every Christmas.
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G.W.F., yes but, no but John Humphrys isn’t around any more on TOADY to complain about Christmas items, decorations, cards, food, being in the shops the day after the August Bank Holiday Monday.
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Ha ha ha, Snuffy!
We still had some Christmas cake in the pantry from last year, but when I looked at it the other day, a green sort of patch had appeared on the top, so I poured it away…
(The was about half a bottle of Courvoisier in it – sadly…)!
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On the Wednesday afternoon R4 vicars’ show they discuss the British fake nativity tradition
which is of course at complete odds with what the bible actually says .
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I fear for coordinated attacks on Ukraine and Taiwan
by Russia and China, whilst sleepy Joe is tucked up in bed.
I expect if it happens, I’m sure the BBC will give us a
balanced interpretation of the” events.”
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Whats Russia to gain from attacking Ukraine?
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Eddy-Tens of thousands more Russians have died of Covid than
the official Russian figures. When a totalitarian county such
as Russia have a very serious internal problem, The answer is
to make it into an external one.
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Putin gained plenty of things the first time around.
Now he wouldn’t be looking to take the whole country
but rather cement his gains, by filling in the gaps between the bits he controls.
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I notice that DFS are now running adverts without people unlike a competitor running a current with ad with two blokes and their 2 children. Maybe the penny has dropped with DFS. The Ofcom commissars have nowhere to go with their new ad!
At least we now know where to go for our new sofa folks!
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It reveals how Ofcom are dictating to advertisers what they can and cannot show, shades of Stalin about it!
We really need to go about smashing these woke quangos and getting rid of their obscene and false influence.
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digg
A job for Nadine Dorries ?
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“Omicron up to 70% less likely to need hospital care”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59769969
Note the operative word “up to”.
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I have been trying to think of something ‘seasonal and funny’ about Biden but I gave up. There is nothing funny at all about Biden. I am convinced he is the ‘chosen one’ because he is totally expendable and ‘hot swoppable’ with ‘Kamala’ who (observable as incompetent), would be replaced by a US ‘emergency council’ or politburo. What you are about to read is almost unbelievable – and quietly ‘rolled-out’ to Western governments by Biden via the UN ‘as a new world policy’.<And to make it worse its been ‘approved’ without a vote for it!
At Christmas!
Read this and wonder, what powers the BBC obsession with sexual identity?
What do election integrity and sexuality have in common? The Biden Administration.
Last Thursday, a UN resolution on election integrity sponsored by the United States was adopted “by consensus” (meaning without a vote) by the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
It was not surprising that no country called for a vote on this U.S.-led resolution as no country wants to openly challenge the U.S. government.
However, what was unusual was that 22 countries spoke out and either disassociated or reserved on controversial LGBT language in this U.S. resolution. (See the list of countries and a link to their recorded statements below.)
Most U.S. citizens have no idea that the U.S. regularly bullies, bribes and blackmails developing countries into accepting anti-life and anti-family policies at the UN and elsewhere.
…
So the US under Biden is determined to create a top down legal requirement for all countries signed up to the UN to create a new ‘class of peoples’ who ‘self identify’ as neither male or femail, man or woman or use mother and father. That is linked to huge US and UK funding Aid to ‘poor’ (third world) nations who are less than happy being told what is a ‘Man’ or a ‘Woman’ and make the two seem interchangeable, (diversity and equality agenda).
That fact that its unscientific falls on deaf ears.
Its hard for Biden ALONE to have ‘thought-up’ all this up himself. Its under the banner of UN idea of Family Human rights (Includes state Abortion and Euthanasia rights push). Designed by the same people who want to ban the word ‘Christmas’, the ‘nuclear family’, the term ‘parents’ and wish to ‘sexualise children’ and make all paedophilia legal (by renaming it another ‘human right’ in LGTTQZYZ identities that cannot be ‘contested’ in court). Money will go to fringe groups via the usual suspects which will include the BBC if they have not already.
Can you protest? No. There is no UN vote. Some countries will still object, but then they won’t get any US (or UK) funny ‘AID’ money, and they will still get BBC ‘World Service’ propaganda machine working on overload to make it so.
The left will immediately start to adopt with ‘preferred pronouns’ from now on (starting with BBC next year). They know the game…
Our own parliamentary committee is ahead of the curve and recommends our MP’s should, approve any ‘motion’ (next year) to make ‘self certification’ legal in the UK. Its as IF they knew what Biden intended all along. BBC head of the curve already.
Population control? Climate Change? Pandemic drugs?
Buy one get three.
https://familywatch.org/is-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-consensual-at-the-united-nations/?inf_contact_key=b8fb8d4a527d30ee366eeea98a65e3331b0a3f0fd3ee5d9b43fb34c6613498d7
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Phil,
So the majority of the African nations, of the Caribbean islands and of Muslim countries wanted to amend the resolution as did both Russia and China.
It’s pretty obvious where these poor, corrupt and mineral-rich countries will be getting their ‘aid’ from now on, as many already are, and it’s not from the US or the UK. How many others will fall under the influence of the Chinese as the West continues to push this agenda remains to be seen. Central and South America next?
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I guess the next Ofcom move will be to make it an offence not to include an ethnic or gay or gender neutral in ANY advert whatever the product.
A bit like the approach of the big brother in 1984, “you will love diversity”.
The problem with this is they have no idea how much resentment and hate they are stoking up! You cannot keep insulting the overwhelming majority of the population and keep everyone on-side with stupid artificial rules made by utter twats to push distorted minority issues, it will eventually explode.
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“Omicron: Half of colds will be Covid, warn UK researchers”
“If you have a sore throat, runny nose and a headache there is a good chance it will be Covid, warn UK researchers.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59768366
So why is our country and its economy being continually being trashed ?
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THIS IS GETTING F******G RIDICULOUS NOW. LETS GET THESE NASTY TWATS OUT OF OUR FACES!
REVOLT IS ALL WE HAVE LEFT!
DON’T BUY THIS BOLLOCKS.
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If there is an emergency, why are illegal bogus asylum seekers allowed to enter the Kingdom that’s under threat ?
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Nibor
“Migrant crossings: More than 270 people cross the Channel on Sunday ”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-59725399
Unless the Tory Government acts we will all be put in extreme danger!
We will be overwhelmed.
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“Channel migrants: Court of Appeal overturns asylum seeker convictions”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-59742349
Why didn’t they claim asylum in France ?
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There are a huge mass of statistics supporting the transition of covid symptoms towards those of a cold or mild flu over the last several months.
The real question is why, in the face of this, the government official line is still, even now, that covid means persistent cough and fever and loss of taste/smell.
Delta was not like that and omicron less so.
I can’t myself see why, if you think you have a cold, a quick LFT would be out of order to check. Especially if you are about to visit elderly relatives, for whom covid rates have stayed low in the last few weeks.
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Sluff
Is Covid being used as means to get us all carrying ID’s
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taffman,
“Is Covid being used as means to get us all carrying ID’s”?
That’s worry isn’t it. Next thing you know they’ll introduce compulsory “Stop & Search” for anyone who looks a bit suspicious…
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maxi
Do you look suspicious?
Are you worried? Do you have reason to look suspicious?
Why do you post (troll) here?
Do you have anything to post about Al Beeb’s bias?
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Maxincony ,
Well done . Your first logical comment .
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Just got out of short trousers…………
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6:30pm BBC1 The Weakest Link Celebrity Christmas Special! Presenter @RomeshRanga ,
Guests , Gemma Collins @MissGemCollins, @msm4rsh (Kym Marsh, equally thick)
, @HughFW , @OneBiggins , @RevKateBottley , @Bonnie_Langford , @JollyOlly & @DannyJohnJules
9pm BBC1 Celebrity Master Chef
guests : Gemma Collins @missgemcollins ,
@realjoeswash , @LesDennis , @MicaParisSoul and @RevRichardColes
presenters @JohnTorode1 & @GreggAWallace
ITV 9pm The The Cube Celebity special hosted by Phillip Schofield Lorraine Kelly with daughter Rosie
vs Jordan Banjo with Perri Kiely from Diversity
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Ex-Communards reverend Richard Coles has been on Countdown C4, 2.10 p.m. all week as well.
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Medialands idea of diversity
..The same liberal London mates again and again
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Danish study on vax efficacy – and while people will quibble – the consistency of the cultivated MSM narratives about what’s going is stumbling – while the vehemence and impositions of many official impositions looks to be ratcheting upwards for other than medical reasons.
archived HERE
h/t Ezra Levant
It’s a danged murky business ….
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Finally we have a means to immunity from woke, anti white, racist marxist ideology and its occasionally available on this site
Its called Vaxiconomy
It’ll give you a pain in the arse for a couple of days
But it has side effects :
Your hair may turn purple and you may have an obsession with cut and paste and semantics
you may end up spending days trawling the web desperately looking for examples of organised, racially aggrevated white indigenous child rape gangs.
You will commonly develop an allergy to income tax but a fondness for demanding how others taxes are spent
and You may find yourself in Wicks buying superglue and then heading for the M25
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Merry Toenails Eve Threat Level
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BBC this morning…
Depressing news from Nursing homes
Depressing news regarding COVID over New Year
Depressing news about families who can’t afford Xmas
Depressing news about supermarkets running out of food.
Depressing news about families and debt.
Depressing news because it’s not a white Xmas.
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL THE F–KING BBC ITS SODDING CHRISTMAS.
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I stopped listening or watching BBC News and Current Affairs programmes about five years ago and I honestly feel physically and mentally healthier for having done so.
On top of the news ( propaganda) it churns out depressing documentaries and drama which destroy the nation’s self confidence , belittle our ancestors achievements and claim that the UK is uniquely guilty of monstrous historical crimes and that we must now atone for these centuries old crimes.
I reckon that the BBC causes mental illness for a significant proportion of those who consume its offerings and should therefore come with a government health warning. That the government forces people against their will to pay for the monstrous corporation which is making them ill is disgusting.
Merry Christmas
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Merry Xmas and have great new year
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Double
Happy Christmas . I find the BBC both horrifying and fascinating. For instance . For an outfit so anti Christian ( evil ) it makes such a big fuss over Christmas .
It spends its time undermining the social fabric of the country – and of course the – our country itself – but it has an image of people – families – at christmas which no longer exists in many cases .
Its ‘ favourite false religion – islam – doesnt have christmas on its’ calender and go to too many british towns and cities at christmas and you will find there isnt one .
Yet on the BBC goes – assuming that every one is gonna have a good time and celebrate when that is not always the case- unless you are part of their sick swamp of course .
Wishing everyone a Good ( perhaps BBC free ) Christmas
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DT,
Marxists know it as, ‘Critical Theory’
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I have to change my gas and electricity tarrif by 28 Feb, cheapest alternative anywhere I can find is a 60% increase
Even the switch sites have given up offering any savings
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I’m having to do mine also, not a happy thought but sod it, I’m going to enjoy Xmas before I start worrying
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Yes I am reframing my pissed offness from yesterday about this also and buy lots of nice things today
and a small heater for one room for the daytime (looked at the economics and convection seems fine for one room only)
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All part of Bo Jo’s build back better plan.
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Z,
Coming off a decent dual tariff mid January, I’ve elected to stay, ‘Footloose and Fancy Free’ on regular Variable tariff until things seem clearer. It would be my luck to enter another year contract only to find the Government steps in just after…………..
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I have left it until February, a calculated risk, I am on mine until end of Feb
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I locked in to a 15-month deal with Scottish Power (1/10/2021 to 31/12/2022) when they offered it towards the end of September. Their previous deal was also 15 months (from 1/7/2020). This was because I suspected big rises were on the way, partly because of the environmentalist insanity promoted by the useless BBC.
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Mustapha – I did similar – but the pain even the big ( French ) suppliers are experiencing now will have to be transferred to punters ( voters ) sooner or later .
Ironically the current self imposed lockdown will push down that upward inflation curve and limit the need for interest rate hikes for a few more months ( this is from the Fedup theory of `economics ) ….
But the cost of living will be – I think – the Big Issue – for the election in a couple of years time …
As an aside – unusually this morning the Today money slot gave a couple of uninterrupted minutes to a major investor type who spelled out the main ‘unknowns ‘ which will affect the economy ( UK / western world ) in the coming year – taking into account no war of more serious brand of virus …
Namely ( in no order )
Changes in labour patterns
Supply chain trouble
Continuing reliance on digital
He threw in ‘climate change ‘ because he thinks it’s a threat to number 2 above …
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Credit Springster; her selfies tend not to make her look like a deranged bunny boiler.
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The ‘i’ newspaper studiously avoids all mention of the royals on its frontpage – meanwhile for one reason or another they proliferate across other titles this morning – and instead, as would be expected of the nation’s most coronaphobic of titles, the ‘i’ prioritises their familiar daily several pandemic bullet points.
However, to borrow from football terminology – it is obviously getting rather difficult playing journalistic keepy uppy with the old Omicron.
‘Omincron transmission appears to be slowing as scientist calls it a “storm not a hurricane” – storm in a teacup more like. How’s her tsunami working out for Ms Sturgeon in Scotland we wonder – just a rather modest tidal wave?
The BBC summarises Scotland’s press headlines as: ‘Scotland’s papers: Kennel boss killed by dog and Omicron threat ‘eases’‘
Oh dear, Scots journalism seems to be in similiar deep doldrums as is their football – Dog bites man and Omicron disappoints, eh?
We further note whilst digesting the latest daily presentation from the ‘i’ that when infections were on the increase we had emphatic alarmist language but now infection simply… seems to be slowing.
Still, all that fuss sold a lot more jabs: ‘Covid: Booster rollout to continue on Christmas Day‘ (BBC)
Medical procedures at Yuletide… I’m reminded of that ancient novelty record “All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth)” – the refrain of six-year-olds and sixty-six-year-olds down the years.
‘PM praises ‘invaluable’ gift of jab‘ (BBC)
Mind you, getting any form of medical attention out of our NHS these days is a bit of a treat.
Six-year-old schoolboy to his pal: “My big bruvver told me he found out the family doctor doesn’t exist – it’s just mummy and daddy and grown ups all pretending”
‘NHS 24 is urging people to treat common illness at home as it faces its busiest period over the festive season.‘ (BBC)
‘It expects 170,000 calls over Christmas and New year – including two four-day weekends with GP surgeries closed.‘ (BBC)
Eight days of surgery closures over the Christmas and New year period allowing NHS staff holidays – because obviously we are still in a pandemic national emergency requiring emergency legislation and regulations to stay in place so as to control the population.
Have you noticed how the NHS saw a big health problem looming and basically abdicated all responsibilty to government and – in effect – the police.
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